Starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) is an important sport and food fish found around the margins of the North Pacific. Aquaculture production of this species in Korea has increased because of its commercial value. Microsatellite DNA markers are a useful DNA-based tool for monitoring the genetic variation of starry flounder populations. In this study, 12 polymorphic microsatellite DNA marker...

Pitaya (Hylocereus undatus) is a non-climacteric fruit that reaches its best eating quality when harvested ripe, decreasing thereafter during storage (CHIEN et al., 2007). As a new crop, there have been limited studies focused on extending the postharvest quality of pitaya fruit. The main postharvest problems of pitaya fruit are mechanical injury, chilling injury, decay, and water loss (NERD et...

Four different assays (the Folin-Ciocalteu, DPPH, enzymatic method, and inhibitory activity on lipid peroxidation) based on radically different physicochemical principles and normally used to determine the antioxidant activity of food have been confronted and utilized to investigate the antioxidant activity of fruits originated from Brazil, with particular attention to more exotic and less-stud...

Sphaerobolus stellatus Tode is a fascinating gasteroid fungus that distinguished from other fungi by the diminutive morphology of starry basidiome when mature and its peculiar strategy spore’s dispersion. This taxon ejects gleba for considerable distance as if it was cannon, therefore popularly known artillery fungus. Although species cosmopolitan, records are seldom in regions such South Ameri...

The sturgeon stock assessment was performed to aim at estimation of absolute and relative abundance and determination of species composition at lower 10 m depths using the Si-Sara2 RV vessel in the Iranian coasts of the Caspian Sea in Guilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces during 6-30 September 2011-2012. In this study, 40 stations were selected on the basis of stratified random sampling des...

The effects of dietary phospholipids (PL) on the performance juvenile stellate sturgeon (Acipenser stellatus) was evaluated in terms growth and feed efficiency parameters, muscle liver fatty acid profiles, activity digestive antioxidative stress enzymes, expression lipoprotein lipase (lpl) insulin-like factor (igf1). For this purpose, seven isoproteic (44% crude protein) isolipidic (17% fat) di...